It’s hard to teach passionately about something that you don’t have a passion for.
BRIAN GREENEIn the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
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Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915,
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Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality
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I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.
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To tell you the truth, I’ve never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it’s hard to say.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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I like ‘The Simpsons’ quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It’s great.
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Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.
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